For the downside of a spankingless story, I would note the following entry from The Bibliography:
Harvey, Marianne, THE PROUD HUNTER, Dell, 1981. The champion teaser! The heroine is threatened with spanking by her boyfriend on p. 81, again on p. 101, her brother says that she should be spanked on p. 109 and again on p. 177, her mother tells her she isn't too old to be spanked on p. 188 and that she should be well spanked and put to bed on p. 197, her sister's husband comes after her with a hairbrush on p. 323, her boyfriend threatens to spank her in front of the whole household on p. 397, as her husband, he threatens to spank her if she runs away on p. 408, and a friend speculates that her husband may wallop her on p. 412. In addition, her father thinks that her sister's husband should spank her sister on p. 71, and her mother and father recall the time that he spanked her mother on p. 153. Throughout this entire book, nobody actually gets spanked. |